- #1 Pax Romana: Romulus
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 72 reviews2019
Dev: Locus Ludus
Windows
Pax Romana: Romulus is an RPG/Adventure game that takes the mythological story of Romulus and Remus, legendary founders of Rome, on a different fiction. In the meantime, let the players create their own farm and design home.
Why similar: RPG 68.6%, Indie 27.5%, Singleplayer 3.9%
- #2 SAELIG
96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,110 reviews2017
Dev: Atorcoppe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.
Why similar: RPG 29.9%, Strategy 29.5%, Simulation 26.7%, Indie 10.9%, Singleplayer 3.1%
- #3 Another Farm Roguelike: Rebirth
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 517 reviews2025
Dev: Zabbo GamesPub: Thermite Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Discover the ultimate farming roguelike experience! Build, craft, and grow your farm to pay off the increasing rent. No slow-paced walking or social distractions—just click! Reclaim the joy of strategic farming in diverse maps and let your cursor guide you to success. Play your way, rent won’t wait!
Why similar: Farming 50.3% ★, Strategy 22.7%, Simulation 17.2%, Indie 7.3%, Singleplayer 2.5%
- #4 Travellers Rest
94% matchVery Positive88% of 17,329 reviews2020
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.
Why similar: RPG 55.2%, Simulation 25.8%, Indie 13.6%, Singleplayer 5.4%
- #5 Medieval Shopkeeper Simulator
95% matchMixed61% of 280 reviews2018
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Keep your stores afloat against unique threats like royal laws, wars and crazy fantasy events. Discover new items, craft, sell them, and create your Merchant Empire in the kingdom! - All in a hybrid 2D-3D style.
Why similar: RPG 45.2%, Simulation 40%, Indie 11.9%, Singleplayer 2.9%
- #6 Circadian City
94% matchMixed59% of 165 reviews2020
Dev: Nowhere StudiosPub: Way Down Deep
Windows · Mac
A life sim game where you play both in the Realworld and the Dreamworld. Your personality is your skill tree.
Why similar: RPG 38.9%, Simulation 29.5%, Strategy 15.7%, Indie 12.4%, Singleplayer 3.5%
- #7 EARTHLOCK
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 595 reviews2018
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Earthlock is an indie developed, adventure RPG inspired by the classic 3D RPGs of the late 90's, with a fresh take on turn based combat and character progression.
Why similar: RPG 37.8%, Strategy 33.1%, Farming 15.7% ★, Indie 11.6%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #8 Another Farm Roguelike
91% matchVery Positive82% of 465 reviews2022
Dev: Zabbo Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Another Farm Roguelike is a 2D farming & crafting game with rougelike elements where your job is to earn as much money as possible to pay the rent. Start from scratch and build the most profitable farm you can make as soon as possible. Work hard to be able to afford the rent.
Why similar: Strategy 54.4%, Simulation 38.6%, Singleplayer 6.9%
- #9 Gladiator School
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 349 reviews2017
Dev: Raptor Claw Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Gladiator School is a Tycoon-style simulation game. You play as the master of a newly formed school for gladiators. Your job is to prepare and train recruits before you send them away to fight for their survival and entertain the crowd in the arena.
Why similar: Strategy 37.8%, Simulation 33.4%, Indie 13.7%, RPG 12.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #10 Clanfolk
90% matchVery Positive92% of 3,845 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: RPG 42.6%, Simulation 35.9%, Indie 16.1%, Singleplayer 5.4%
- #11 Ragnorium
91% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Survival 36%, Strategy 25.5%, Simulation 19.5%, RPG 16.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #12 Under The Yoke
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Priory Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Under The Yoke is a 2D medieval peasant life-sim. Make your mark in the Domesday book as you control a family of serfs through 250 years of English history. Cultivate your lands, craft goods and hone your reputation as you navigate the tumultuous Middle Ages. Your family’s future is yours to shape!
Why similar: Simulation 95.1%, Singleplayer 4.9%
- #13 Primitive Society Simulator
88% matchVery Positive83% of 731 reviews2024
Dev: YSH BigDovePub: YSH Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
Why similar: Alternate History 42.5%, Strategy 31%, Simulation 23%, Singleplayer 3.6%
- #14 Ludus
89% matchMixed68% of 869 reviews2020
Dev: Cheesecake Dev
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build the best ludus in the world! and survive in ancient Rome.
Why similar: Simulation 29.4%, Strategy 29%, RPG 28.4%, Indie 11.1%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #15 Roots of Tomorrow
87% matchMixed61% of 73 reviews2022
Dev: GAMABILIS
Windows · Mac
Roots of Tomorrow is a free-to-play sustainable farming manager/simulator. Expand your farm, take care of your animals, upgrade your buildings, invest in research, and explore the solutions offered by agroecology!
Why similar: Strategy 45.7%, Simulation 38.4%, Indie 15.8%
- #16 This Merchant Life
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 185 reviews2019
Dev: Inexplicable Games
Windows
This Merchant Life is a trading strategy game set in the troubled medieval kingdom of Peregrine. Turn a rickety wooden cart, two horses and a few coins into a thriving entrepreneurial triumph!
Why similar: Strategy 43.4%, RPG 38.9%, Indie 15.6%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #17 Rebirth of Island
86% matchMixed52% of 101 reviews2016
Dev: Yo_Serjio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.
Why similar: Strategy 34%, RPG 30.5%, Survival 19.6%, Indie 13.2%, Singleplayer 2.7%
- #18 Hard Times
85% matchVery Positive90% of 89 reviews2020
Dev: Radical Fiction
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hard Times is an extreme urban survival game where you have to put yourself into the shoes of a homeless man, taking on all the challenges that daily survival places in the great metropolis of indifference.
Why similar: Simulation 48.9%, Indie 22.8%, Survival 14.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #19 BLOCKLORDS
84% matchMostly Negative34% of 62 reviews2026
Dev: MetaKing Studios
Windows
BLOCKLORDS is a player-driven medieval grand strategy game where your decisions and skills shape the world and narrative. Choose from several playstyles, including farming, fighting, resource management, and ruling, and forge your own destiny as your Hero.
Why similar: Strategy 31.8%, RPG 31.7%, Simulation 25.2%, Indie 11.2%
- #20 Immortal Farmer: System’s Mandate
83% matchMixed70% of 292 reviews2025
Dev: oyogame
Windows
Welcome to "Immortal Farmer: System’s Mandate", RPG blending rural & cult. life. In demon-doomed world, flee to Taoyuan. Cultivate, gather, refine, bond. Cultivation needs accumulation & choices; follow heart for peace & fulfillment.
Why similar: RPG 48.1%, Simulation 29.4%, Survival 22.5%
- #21 Monarch : Medieval Remastered
81% matchVery Positive81% of 377 reviews2025
Dev: Mr.Lordy
Windows
In the medieval era, assume the role of a lord and engage with other lords,develop fiefdoms, and employ strategies involving intrigue, warfare, and plunder. Expand your territory and strengthen your house lineage Or, be a god, manipulate the world? This game primarily strategic role-playing elements
Why similar: Strategy 37.2%, RPG 32%, Simulation 28.3%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #22 Age of Gladiators II: Rome
84% matchMixed67% of 265 reviews2018
Dev: Creative Storm Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Age of Gladiators II: Rome is a single-player strategy/management sim set at the height of the bloody gladiatorial games in ancient Rome. As your fighters increase in level, it will be up to you to decide how to forge their attributes and abilities. Build your story. Build your empire.
Why similar: Strategy 27.6%, RPG 25%, Alternate History 18.4%, Simulation 18%, Indie 9.6%
- #23 Surviving Ceres
81% matchVery Positive87% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Survival 28.7%, Simulation 28.2%, RPG 22.7%, Strategy 19.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #24 Citizen of Rome - Dynasty Ascendant
82% matchVery Positive80% of 239 reviews2019
Dev: Citizen of Life Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Life sim set in the Ancient Roman Republic. Experience life and events in Ancient Rome through multiple generations of a family, helping them grow from lowly commoners to mighty Senators. Long live the Republic!
Why similar: Alternate History 37%, RPG 30.6%, Simulation 28.5%, Singleplayer 3.9%
- #25 Aurora Dusk: Steam Age
82% matchVery Positive83% of 309 reviews2019
Dev: Sylvain Harlaut
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An amazing mix of RPG, strategy, simulation, sandbox and survival game. Aurora Dusk looks like many other games, but instead of being alone, you live in a community. You can play one or more villagers and evolve from the Wood Age to the Steam Age.
Why similar: Strategy 43.7%, RPG 39.8%, Indie 15%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #26 The Doors of Trithius
78% matchVery Positive94% of 883 reviews2021
Dev: Jake Donkersgoed
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The Doors of Trithius is an open-world RPG roguelike. Engage in tactical turn-based combat in a living world of warring factions, wandering behemoths, and ancient magic. Level your skills, cook, craft, and explore dungeons. Will you follow the story, or let adventure be your guide?
Why similar: Simulation 34%, Survival 29.6%, RPG 25.4%, Indie 7.9%, Singleplayer 3%
- #27 We Who Are About To Die
77% matchVery Positive88% of 8,249 reviews2022
Dev: Jordy Lakiere
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Fight & strategize your way through spectacles and arenas - rise from lowly slave to Grand Champion and earn your freedom. Or... die trying. This Gladiator RPG Roguelite features in-depth career management and a unique physics simulated combat system. To those who are about to die, I salute you!
Why similar: Strategy 34.9%, RPG 32.4%, Simulation 28.3%, Singleplayer 4.5%
- #28 Green Project
79% matchVery Positive80% of 1,445 reviews2020
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !
Why similar: Simulation 45.8%, Survival 30.4%, Indie 22.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #29 Chronomon
76% matchVery Positive84% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: Stone Golem Studios
Windows · Mac
Monster Tamers and Farmers... Catch, train, and evolve unique creatures, harness them to grow your farm, and build friendships as you help restore villages and reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Farming 51.2% ★, RPG 22.8%, Simulation 18.3%, Indie 5.6%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #30 Life in Bunker
79% matchMixed60% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
Why similar: Strategy 34.9%, Survival 28.5%, Simulation 28%, Indie 7.1%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #31 Grimshire
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,830 reviews2025
Dev: Acute Owl Studio
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
A deadly plague threatens the village of Grimshire. Manage your farmland, forage the bounty of the wilds, prevent your harvest from rotting away and keep the root cellar full. Can you help bring the community together and survive?
Why similar: Survival 41.9%, RPG 32.9%, Simulation 22.2%, Singleplayer 2.9%
- #32 Farmer's Dynasty - Final Harvest Edition
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,283 reviews2019
Dev: UMEO StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Live – Build – Farm: Enjoy a unique mix of farming, constructing and life simulation that takes you to the countryside and holds plenty of challenging gameplay in stock!
Why similar: Simulation 40.7%, RPG 37.1%, Strategy 18.5%, Singleplayer 3.8%
- #33 Viking Frontiers: Prologue
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 478 reviews2025
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: GameHunters
Windows
Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.
Why similar: Strategy 31.7%, RPG 28.9%, Simulation 24.2%, Survival 14.1%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #34 Forsaken Fortress Strategy
80% matchMostly Negative34% of 197 reviews2015
Dev: Photon ArenaPub: KISS ltd
Windows
Forsaken Fortress Strategy is a squad based, survival strategy game focused on base building and scavenging.
Why similar: Strategy 35%, RPG 32.1%, Simulation 22.1%, Indie 10.8%
- #35 Rencounter
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 374 reviews2016
Dev: SPVDPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Rencounter is a difficult, turn-based, RPG, roguelike game with a mysterious atmosphere. Help your squad survive while navigating through a network of tunnels and rooms. Distribute provisions and medicine to keep them alive.
Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, RPG 41.1%, Indie 17.5%
- #36 Home Behind
76% matchVery Positive84% of 6,109 reviews2016
Dev: TPP Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?
Why similar: RPG 29.2%, Survival 25.1%, Strategy 18.8%, Simulation 15.7%, Indie 9.8%
- #37 Norland
73% matchVery Positive82% of 9,913 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Strategy 36.6%, Simulation 29.7%, Survival 29.2%, Singleplayer 4.4%
- #38 Farthest Frontier
70% matchVery Positive86% of 24,477 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Farming 42.4% ★, Alternate History 22.3%, Strategy 19.9%, Survival 15.4%
- #39 Chef RPG
72% matchVery Positive88% of 2,586 reviews2024
Dev: World 2 Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?
Why similar: RPG 63.9%, Simulation 36.1%
- #40 Farm Keeper
73% matchVery Positive92% of 395 reviews2023
Dev: Cuddle Code
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
A tile-based farming game where success means maximizing yields to survive the rent, expanding your farm through random tile choices.
Why similar: Farming 69.7% ★, Strategy 30.3%
- #41 Nantucket
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 874 reviews2018
Dev: Picaresque Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Chase after Moby Dick, and live through the Golden Age of American whaling in this seafaring strategy game. Set sail around the world, manage your ship and crew, and live Ishmael's story, the sole survivor of the Pequod, a few years after the events narrated by Herman Melville in his masterpiece.
Why similar: Strategy 37.2%, RPG 28.5%, Simulation 22%, Indie 12.3%
- #42 Farmtale
75% matchMixed67% of 262 reviews2020
Dev: Titanforged Entertainment
Windows
Build your farm from one chicken and explore the world as you progress. Buy animals, harvest crops, hire workers for management, and advance through unique buildings, quests, upgrades, and items in the ultimate idle clicker hybrid!
Why similar: RPG 50.4%, Simulation 44.9%, Singleplayer 4.7%
- #43 Territory: Farming and Warfare
71% matchVery Positive85% of 715 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: Strategy 42.2%, Simulation 40.1%, Indie 10.6%, Singleplayer 7.1%
- #44 Dead In Vinland
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,800 reviews2018
Dev: Ishtar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.
Why similar: RPG 27%, Strategy 24.2%, Survival 21.7%, Simulation 18.2%, Indie 7.5%
- #45 Summa Expeditionis
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 290 reviews2026
Dev: Lobico GamesPub: Megalevel
Windows
Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.
Why similar: Strategy 37.3%, Simulation 33.6%, Survival 26.8%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #46 Viking Frontiers
72% matchMixed54% of 522 reviews2025
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: GameHunters
Windows
Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.
Why similar: Strategy 35.4%, RPG 34.8%, Simulation 26%, Singleplayer 3.8%
- #47 The Home County
70% matchVery Positive95% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Swanworth
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a functional cozy village in the British countryside! Explore haunted mines, manage your village's production, and enjoy immersive hobbies! Will you start a cult, rule as a Lord or Lady, or guide your villagers as equals?
Why similar: RPG 56.1%, Simulation 43.9%
- #48 Farm to Table
68% matchVery Positive93% of 347 reviews2026
Dev: indieGiant
Windows
A farming & restaurant management sim with base building elements. Grow in backyard to cook & serve! Discover new recipes by exploring ingredients on the island; gather, fish, raise animals & produce with machines. Manage resources, hire staff & grow your organic business into a 5-star restaurant!
Why similar: Simulation 87.2%, Singleplayer 12.8%
- #49 Rise to Ruins
69% matchVery Positive88% of 7,745 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Strategy 36.8%, Survival 30%, Simulation 22.1%, Indie 8.9%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #50 Anvil Saga
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,803 reviews2023
Dev: Pirozhok StudioPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.
Why similar: RPG 47.2%, Simulation 33%, Indie 13.9%, Singleplayer 5.8%
- #51 The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 220 reviews2018
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Build, discover, craft and survive.Build your settlement in a snowy encampment, survive monster attacks and manage resources to uncover the secrets of the ancients.
Why similar: RPG 24.4%, Simulation 24.1%, Strategy 23.1%, Survival 16.7%, Indie 11.7%
- #52 Stardew Valley
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,008,001 reviews2016
Dev: ConcernedApe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 22.6 hrsMean: 84.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Why similar: RPG 48.9%, Simulation 34.1%, Indie 13.4%, Singleplayer 3.6%
- #53 Kilta
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 84 reviews2022
Dev: myTrueSound
Windows
Kilta is a single-player auto battler strategy RPG featuring item management, an interesting story supported by a growing cast of unique characters, charming pixel art in a 2.5D environment, and a stunning soundtrack.
Why similar: Strategy 45.7%, RPG 45.1%, Indie 7%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #54 Colonize Prologue
69% matchMixed64% of 511 reviews2022
Dev: RembrosoftPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.
Why similar: Strategy 41.3%, Survival 40.8%, Simulation 17%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #55 CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience
67% matchVery Positive91% of 2,800 reviews2020
Dev: Delve Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
CHANGE is an award nominated homeless survival experience set in a randomly created city with rogue-like elements. Explore, survive, earn perks, find items & kindness to develop your character & escape to a new life. Over 7 years of development & over 200 updates so far!
Why similar: Strategy 38.8%, RPG 37.6%, Survival 23.6%
- #56 Stone Story RPG
67% matchVery Positive91% of 989 reviews2023
Dev: Rex Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 57.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
An auto-RPG with strategic combat, deep crafting and programming elements, animated entirely in ASCII-art. In a realm of perpetual darkness, a single stone could change everything...
Why similar: RPG 77.6%, Indie 22.4%
- #57 Lords and Villeins
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 966 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Strategy 46.6%, Simulation 35.6%, Indie 13.5%, Singleplayer 4.3%
- #58 Besmirch
66% matchVery Positive100% of 61 reviews2026
Dev: Gangru GamesPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
The town of Besmirch starves. Stave off the hunger as the latest farmhand in this survival horror farming sim, earning the trust of paranoid townsfolk under the thumb of the corrupt Baron. Tend to both your farm and the town while avoiding unholy terrors that come in the night.
Why similar: Farming 66.6% ★, RPG 29.4%, Singleplayer 4%
- #59 The Road To Harvest: Food From Across The Ocean
67% matchVery Positive82% of 115 reviews2025
Dev: MuccyGames
Windows · Mac
Become the God of Harvest, explore the world of food and adventure, plant, trade, and spread deliciousness to create your own path to prosperity!
Why similar: Simulation 42.6%, RPG 41.4%, Indie 11.4%, Singleplayer 4.6%
- #60 Never Second in Rome
65% matchVery Positive80% of 547 reviews2026
Dev: Alessandro Roberti
Windows
Never Second in Rome is a turn-based historical game with RPG and management elements. You are a Roman centurion in the army of Julius Caesar. You will control both your character and the unit under his command.
Why similar: RPG 48.1%, Simulation 40.5%, Indie 8.3%, Singleplayer 3.1%